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NASA recently announced that they would develop an asteroid hunting space telescope to look out for possible life-threatening asteroids in the solar system.
The space is a vast area, and we hardly know what s happening outside Earth. NASA decided to work on a telescope that can see asteroids within our solar system to foresee possible threats to our planet.
NASA s Space Telescope - Purpose
According to NASA s press release, their infrared space telescope will be of great help to NASA s planetary defense efforts.
The telescope increases their ability to observe and characterize any potentially hazardous asteroids, comets, and even stars within 30 million miles around the Earth s orbit.